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From: steiner@topaz.ARPA (Dave Steiner)
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Subject: Re: (more) Sherlock Holmes
Message-ID: <1204@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 13-Apr-85 05:28:58 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 13 05:28:58 1985
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> From: edtking@uw-june (Ewan Tempero)
> Message-ID: <84@uw-june>
> Date: 11 Apr 85 20:16:12 GMT
>
> >????? by ?????
> >     - I would appreciate it if anyone can fill in the question marks
> >       on this one.  Here we find that Holmes' and Moriarty's superior
> >       powers stem from the fact that they are (twin? - cloned?) actors 
> >       from the far future who traveled back in time for some reason.
> >       As I recall, the author was treating the book seriously.

This is Exit Sherlock Holmes by Robert Lee Hall.

> 
> Along the same lines....
> I remember reading a short Science Fiction story by ?Asimov? that was
> written as a letter to Holmes by Moriarty. He claimed to be someone 
> from the future that had learnt a shakespearian play, sent into
> the past to wonder on stage of the first showing of the same play. He
> appeared at the place a particular character was supposed to appear so
> he quoted the lines he remembered. He discovered later that the
> character he remembered was not originally in the script and that Bill S.
> had added the character *after* Moriarty had appeared. Moriarty's
> question to Holmes was "Who wrote these lines if they were originally
> quoted from memory?"
> 
> The above is somewhat rambling, very vague and probably not even totally
> correct but if someone out there recognises the story/play/author....?
> Ewan
> ------------
> Ewan Tempero                     "Oh no, not again"
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I believe that this is The Adventure of the Global Traveler by Anne Lear.
This has been published in Sherlock Holmes Through Time & Space - Asimov,
Greenberg & Waugh Eds.  I believe that this was originally published in 
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
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